Luke 12:30

³²For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

⁸Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need before you ask him.

¹⁷This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

³²“Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

¹⁴Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

²that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. ³For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries. ⁴They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you.

⁵not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

²⁰For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

⁴⁷If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors^[+] do the same?

^17[+] Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”